What a nice first Christmas for S, well, until the mean old man who kidnapped him as a baby and abused him came looking for him. I love that S himself is enough a gift for the Kents. How sweet! And that he kept holding on to the football. His first toy. How sad that S had to wear Jason's hand-me-downs until they were thread bare.
You may hate me for saying this, but I'm actually working on an even sadder Alt Clark for another story.
Poor kid. Never has had a toy in his one. :
Trask really doesn't know how to build loyality, does he? How did he expect to get S to do his bidding? Once he sent him out on an assignment, what reason would S have to do what Trask told him to do or to return to home base? What a deluded man.
No, he doesn't. He was banking on just totally brainwashing Clark. And failed.
Yeah, I was a bit surprised too that Trask Sr. didn't use a name, when he showed Jonathan the photo... or that Jonathan didn't ask. "What's his name?"
That was Jonathan being sneaky, testing to see what Trask would do and say.
"Watch out. He has mental problems." Well, if he does, who gave them to him? Good thing that S escaped when he did, because Trask would have worn the Kryptonite around his neck (without the lead case) so S wouldn't have heat-visioned him.
Well, to be fair, I meant it more like Trask trying to discourage people from making contact with Clark. And if they did, oh well, gee, poor disturbed kid is making up stories about the evil Trask-man.
If S had crossed several state lines to end back at the Kent farm and Trask was able to find him within 36 hours, I'm thinking three possible scenarios. 1) Trask heard about the report from the Sheriff of a boy, roughly 12, who had been found by the Kents, in which case Trask knows that Jonathan was lying to him and might keep an eye on him and the farm to see if S appears. Or 2) Trask went back to where the ship crashed to see if S would go back there and started fanning out from there, in which case S (now Clark) would be safe (for the time being). 3) Trask has some sort of tracking device on S that he doesn't know about, in his clothing or something. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense on how Trask managed to get to the Kent farm within that short amount of time. That's too much of a coincidence in my book.
Okay, I was actually thinking it is a simple matter of math. They know Clark had run at X miles per hour. He can usually run for Y time before needing to take a break. So that would give him Z travel time/miles covered, giving them rough ideas of the radius he could be in. Fanning out members of B39 would cut down on the search time. Luck would put Trask in the right place at the right time, as he could have easily gone searching in the opposite direction, and sent Jenson looking in the Kent's area.
I'm glad that S decided to trust the Kents and that he had the file to share with them to help explain why Trask was such a bad man.
Yup. Totally helpful.
I loved the part where Martha hugged him. Awwwwwwwwwwww.
Let's hope that the Kents will be able to keep him now and that he'll be able to have a semi-normal life. He has a lot of love to catch up on. Going to school will be a shock and a half for poor Clark. I hope the Kents understand this. He's never been around any other kids. I can just imagine what would happen if someone tried to bully him or he discovers girls with Lana.
I actually didn't touch on whether or not he meets Lana in this universe. You'll see why. I didn't think it really needed to go there, is basically what it boiled down to. Yes, he does have a lot of catch-up to play. Luckily for him, the Kents are up to the task!
Looking forward for more!
Soon!
